{"product_id":"richard-howard-loves-henry-james-richard-howard-9781681374512","title":"Richard Howard Loves Henry James and Other American Writers","description":"\u003cb\u003eA lauded American poet's tributes to Walt Whitman and Henry James, now collected for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRichard Howard has long been recognized as one of America's finest poets, celebrated as an author for his keen engagement with other authors, and especially for his sparkling and trenchant dramatic monologues and two-part inventions. Through the years, Howard has, in this way, \u003ci\u003egiven voice\u003c\/i\u003e to all sorts of historical and literary figures, but two of his favorite subjects are two of his favorite writers--Walt Whitman and Henry James--and this book gathers an array of poems in which he responds to these great gay forebears, as well as to two other beloved Americans, Hart Crane and Wallace Stevens. Here Whitman the good gray poet opens his door to Bram Stoker and to Oscar Wilde; Henry James struggles to take stock of Los Angeles, where he is to have lunch with L. Frank Baum; Edith Wharton reminisces about her fraught friendship with the Master; poor Pansy from \u003ci\u003eThe Portrait of a Lady\u003c\/i\u003e broods on her dreadful father; and late in life Wallace Stevens visits Paris--as Stevens never did. Howard's wonderful inventions are as expansive and celebratory and human as Whitman, as deeply and subtly inquiring as James, as sumptuously meditative as Stevens, and as arresting and delightful as Richard Howard himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Howard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 168137451X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681374512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/27\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 4.30w x 0.60d","brand":"Richard Howard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43984854810879,"sku":"9781681374512","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1c76131c-ded3-4775-8278-9d813c649d11.jpg?v=1683274505","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/richard-howard-loves-henry-james-richard-howard-9781681374512","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}